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A screen capture from a CTV News video explaining a “cheat code” that unlocks a special feature on a Bank of Canada website debuting the new $10 note to be released in honor of the country’s 150th birthday. (CTVNews.ca) more >

An old-school video game cheat code will unlock a silly hidden feature on the Bank of Canada’s website.

Visitors to the Bank’s web page devoted to the new $10 note can enter the “Konami code” — up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a — on their keyboards to start an animation of $10 falling from the top of the page to the strains of the national anthem “O, Canada,” CTV News reported Monday.

According to the Bank of Canada website, the new $10 note will enter circulation on June 1, exactly one month ahead of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Dominion of Canada as a self-governing federal union.

Further U.K. legislation in 1931 and 1982 effected full statutory and constitutional sovereignty, respectively, for Canada, which nonetheless retains the British monarch as head of state.